Spellbinders – Two Floral Stems Cards…

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! It’s Monday and I’m behind getting these two cards posted for Spellbinders! I love how they turned out though! Such pretty florals!

And the weather was right for me to get good photos! YAY!

Very Clean and Simple designs and I’m sure these cards will get used!

I made a die cut Arch frame with the Essential Arches Etched Dies set. I used two of the set and didn’t even tape them down! lol

I used the largest Arch die to make the shape card base. I cut a cardbase 11 in. x 4.25 in., scored it at 5.5 in., folded it in half and placed the die on it so the very top isn’t cut. Then I cut another single, complete arch the same size to tape over the top.

Then I glued on the kraft Arch frame and the die cut flowers.

This card is 3 ¾ in. wide and 5 ½ in. tall. It’ll still fit in an A2 envelope. Just a little narrower. Fun!

I used one of the new Spellbinders Modern Stripes Hot Foil Plates with a brass looking hot foil.

I love the sentiments from this NEW Spellbinders Must-Have Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die set! I used the same Hot Foil color to make them.

I’m going to get a lot of use from these florals! Die cut, glue together and mount to the card! I used my favorite thin mounting tape.

Be sure to email or comment if you have any questions. I’m tired today so I’m sure I’m forgetting something or more!

Linking to some challenges…

Tic Tac Toe Challenge – yellow, die cuts and floral

Triple B – Blooms for me again this time!

The Flower Challenge #81 – Use Your Favorite Flower

Thank you so much for stopping by! It’s beautiful here today! Low humidity and the perfect temperature! Unusual for Iowa in June!

Here’s the products for shopping…click/tap on the abbreviations below the product to go to a store.

(SBC = scrapbook . com) (SSS = simon says stamp . com) (SPL = spellbinders . com) (STR = starlitstudio . net)

Thank you for shopping through my links. No cost to you!

Spellbinders – Simon Hurley -… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Simon Hurley -… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Simon Hurley -… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Greetings… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Cardstock, Paper, & Envelopes \|… [ SPL ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]	Crystal Katana Black Edition \|… [ SPL ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Oxide Inks · Spellbinders dies · Summer · Thinking of You

Spellbinders Hello Blooms Stencil and Die Card…

June 8, 2023June 12, 2023 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hello friends and cardmakers! A super fun card to share with you today! Have you tried the new stencils like this? I don’t know why but it’s so satisfying to color in this clean and simple way! Fast too!

I used Distress Oxide inks, Peacock Feathers, Pine Needles, Abandoned Coral, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness and Ground Espresso with blending brushes through the stencil. I cleaned the stencil between colors.

For the background, I ran the A2 size Spellbinders Simply Perfect Florets Embossing Folder through the die cut machine and trimmed it down and matted it with thin mounting tape to an A2 White cardbase. So cute! I love this folder and it matches this floral so well!

I LOVE this script hello die that is included with the coordinating die set! I did it up white on white…pleasing to my eye! lol

I did my coloring through the stencil first but now that I’ve done it once, next time I’m going to die cut a white panel, keep the die cut in the panel, then do the coloring through the stencil so I can get the margins better. I had to do a little trimming after I die cut because the white margin was more in a few places.

I used the large Wendy Vecchi Make Art station to hold things in place.

Linking to some challenges…

Tic Tac Toe Challenge – diagonal on the graphic, Ink Blending, Free and Floral

Triple B Challenge – Blooms

The Flower Challenge #81 – your favorite flower

Stencil Fun Challenge – Layer Stencils

Links below to what I used to make this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my hello!

Product shopping list….click/tap on the abbreviations for the stores under the item to see!

Spellbinders – Glimmer Cardfront… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Cardfront… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Simply Perfect… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Wendy Vecchi – Make Art… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Waffle Flower Crafts – Blending Brushes [ SBC \| SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp DETAIL FLAT BLENDING… [ SSS ]	Spellbinders – Card Shoppe Essentials… [ SBC ]
Spellbinders – Universal Plate System… [ SBC ]	New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL ]	Zig 2-Way Glue Pen – Squeeze & Roll… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]

Birthday · cards · CAS · Congratulations · Die Piecing · Graduation · Masculine · Slimline · Spellbinders dies · Summer

Two Grad Cards with Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Club…

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hi cardmakers and friends! Some fun cards that came together fast. I was so glad the club kit has birthday and graduation sentiment banners!

A2 size cardbase with a panel on top… die cut all the parts…you even get the cloud dies in the set! It’s such a good deal for $15! You can purchase later but the price is $27!

One of our grandsons when he was a toddler loved lining up his airplanes like a lot of boys line up cars! So cute! Now he loves fishing, playing the piano and drums….and swimming and and and! lol Airplanes always make me remember this about him.

The dies in this kit make lines to follow where the pieces go! THAT is so great! Helpful! Speeds it up!

The words in the banners are such a neat look!

I used my favorite double sided mounting tape to adhere the die cuts to the card. The clouds are glued flat.

I had a lot of pictures for this first card… second card I only have two. So keep scrolling! lol

Basically the same thing only Slimline size…matte gold and matte silver scrap pieces for the airplane.

I love the clean and simple approach with the dark medium blue sky! So fun!

My daughters needed 7 grad cards so these 2 will go with 5 others I made for them. So fun! I love it when I get to use my supplies!

Thank you so much for stopping by and before you go I better tell you about the SALE Spellbinders has going on! Some wonderful products to choose from! So glad we can order online since Hobby Lobby quit carrying them.

Have a good rest of the week!

Shopping links to the products I used to make these cards… click/tap on the letters under the idea to go to the shop. Thank you!

Small Die of the Month Membership –… [ SPL ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Confetti Cake… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Earl Grey -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cherry Pop -… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Blueberry -… [ TE ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Silver Matte… [ STR ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold Matte… [ STR ]
New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Crystal Katana Black Edition \|… [ SPL ]	Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC \| SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Spring · Thinking of You · Watercolor

Memory Box New Marvelous Magnolia 3D Embossing Folders Cards…

April 27, 2023April 28, 2025 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hello in hot foil on watercolor paper today!

Two cards to share with the same coloring idea. I used watercolor crayons. Do you remember those? Do you have some stashed away in a drawer or cupboard? It was really easy to do, color it on then go over it with a wet paint brush.

I started out by embossing the folder on watercolor paper…this picture is Strathmore. I ended up using Memory Box Watercolor paper for the card with the plaid background. My second card is Hammermill color copy cover cardstock.

I had to do it over because after I was done painting, I put it back in the folder and ran it through again but I didn’t get it lined up right.

The second time I didn’t run it through again after painting! Learned my lesson! haha

I used the NEW Magnolia Plaid paper for the background and a strip of paper from the New Magnolia Grove paper pad under the sentiment.

Lines of foiling run through this plaid paper so I used Gold Mirror/Foil Cardstock to mat the embossed panel. I die cut out the center of it so I can use it for something else.

I wanted to carry over the gold into my sentiment so I used the Hello from poppystamps Birthday Wishes Poe Script foil and cut die set.

I used Memory Box watercolor cardstock for the embossed panel and the sentiment. I really like how it colors and how easy it is to remove color if you get it where you don’t want it!

My next card is the same 3D embossing folder but lighter colors and on cardstock.

This folder comes with dies! I embossed another panel of cardstock and die cut and embossed them but didn’t get a card made with them yet.

I did the same coloring with watercolor crayons. I bet watercolor pencils would work too!

For this one I die cut the Memory Box Thank You Posh Script die in vellum and TE Cupcake Pink cardstock.

Very simple but I’m happy with both of them! whew! I can’t believe it’s already Thursday. I’ve worked on these since Monday. I guess I played too much! haha

Linking to some Challenges…

Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge – anything goes (isn’t this a fun name?!)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – anything goes

Papercraft Challenges – #93 Spring

Thank you for stopping by! Talk to you again soon!

Products I used to make these cards…

Memory Box – EF1035 Marvelous… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94529 Thank You Posh… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – PSF807 Birthday Wishes… [ STR ]
Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – shiny gold [ STR ]	Memory Box – PP1021 Magnolia Plaid… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1022 Magnolia Grove… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – WP101 Watercolor Paper -… [ STR ]	Caran d’Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle… [ BLIC ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Cupcake -… [ TE ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil Roll… [ SBC \| SPL ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

All Occasion · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Oxide Inks · Spellbinders dies · Uncategorized

Spellbinders April 3D Embossing Folder Club…

April 13, 2023April 14, 2023 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! I kept this card clean and simple… A7 size. Embossing Folder FUN! ❤

Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide swiped directly on the smooth side of the NEW April 3D Embossing Folder. I love it! So many different ways to ‘do it up’!

It’s really a greener green in real life.

I used the Best Wishes sentiment from the April Large Die of the Month Club set.

‘From All Of Us’ is from the Essential Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plates set. A neat variety of sentiments!

One thing I tried but didn’t finish was, after I did this same first step, I took another color oxide ink pad and swiped it over the top/raised areas and it worked great too! Lots of ideas out there! People are so creative!

Linking to challenges…

Can You Handle the Pressure – anything goes

Addicted to CAS – Garden